Currently on Broadway, playing the role of Fate in the hit musical Hadestown (Winner of 8 Tony Awards – including Best New Musical), Cuban-American actress, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, has established herself as the rare kind of artist who is comfortable in any genre. Yvette has performed and toured around the globe with artists such as Engelbert Humperdinck, Ne-Yo, Jason Mraz, Wyclef Jean, Gloria Estefan, Justin Bieber & All-4-One, among others.
She recently won the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Contest and was previously signed to BMG Publishing. Her songs have been heard on Sirius XM and on a variety of films and TV shows (including the feature film Miss Arizona, Dan Fogelman’s feature film Life Itself, NCIS: Los Angeles and ESPN, to name a few).
An award winning actress, she has landed coveted roles such as Cha Cha in Fox’s star-studded cast of Grease: Live, Vanessa in the 1st Broadway National tour of In the Heights, Kiki in the beloved Emmy Award Winning TV series The Fresh Beat Band (where she received two Imagen Award nominations for Best Actress in a Television Series),
In this episode we talk about:
- her journey in the entertainment world and working as both a singer and an actress
- not just complimenting by their physical appearances
- why her Mother made her a cardboard violin when she was 1 1/2 and wanted music in her life
- her “marker moments”
- her fast track education graduating college at 18!
- giving herself a financial goal at 18 and doing all she could do meet it and realizing she could do it, but it wasn’t that fun
- which led her to auditioning to be a background singer with Engelbert Humperdinck
- leaving touring as a background singer without having a what’s next but knowing she was ready to grow more
- living in the space of I don’t know being a growth space
- being open to what is coming her way , going where she is wanted and needed and being a YES as a way to explore what the next step is
- feeling the need to cut ties from her old, known self by creating an artists name
- moving to LA and being available to what came her way from becoming a music producer to making up songs for commercials
- coming back to trusting herself and her intuition
- being an a MAJOR kid’s show
- trying to figure out how to re-invent herself post being on a kid’s show and pursuing music again
- holding space
- The Zen story of good luck and bad luck and how we don’t know what the big picture is really
- How people just want to know that they will be loved unconditionally
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
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